Thanks for the link, those pointers eventually lead to me solving this nasty issue. The FAQ makes it sound simple to get private shares working, but in reality it is not entirely straight forward. Providing the password to net use while cron was being run as the SYSTEM user did not fix the issue. The share was still listed as unavailable. Likewise running cron as my own user did not fix the issue. Getting cron to run as my user was not entirely straight forward because as it turned out the /etc/passwd entry for my user was incorrect. I had to first use mkpasswd to get a valid /etc/passwd entry and then use cron-config to get cron to run as my user. Then, even after all of this, the share was still returning Unavailable. It wasn't until I additionally used net use on top of running cron as my user until I cron finally was able to properly see the private share. Is there somewhere where a more detailed how-to on this exists or perhaps a wiki where I and other users could explain this task in more detail? Here is the current iteration of my script with sensitive info replaced:
#!/usr/bin/bash ( echo "" date net use z: \\\\192.168.1.101\\homes /u:user "*************" net use df nice -19 rsync -au /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/Mike/ /cygdrive/z/backup/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/Mike/ & nice -19 rsync -au /cygdrive/g/Photos/ /cygdrive/z/backup/g/Photos/ & nice -19 rsync -au /cygdrive/g/Temp/ /cygdrive/z/backup/g/Temp/ & nice -19 rsync -au /cygdrive/g/Desktop\ Extension/ /cygdrive/z/backup/g/Desktop\ Extension/ & ) >> /home/Mike/rsync.log 2>&1 On 2/18/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daksa wrote: <snip> > As you can see, when I run the command manually from a xcygwin xterm > the script has no issues seeing z: mounted at /mnt/z. No such luck > when the script is run from cron. I notice some subtle differences in > the env but I can't explain why the samba share would not appear from > the cron... > Read the FAQ entry: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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